Published in The Covington News ~ August 17, 2019. A couple of weeks ago I posted this cartoon by my friend Man Martin on Facebook and Twitter. What struck me was the utter lack of pushback. There was none. I am not expecting the same regarding this...
Published in The Covington News ~ July 12, 2019. PREFACE If you are a subscriber of this newspaper, you may have noticed that I haven’t posted anything in a while. Yes, gentle reader, I have been — as we say — busy. And yep, this is an actual eulogy, the one I...
Every honest, thinking person knows that there is a difference between what is simply legal and what is right, what is good and what is that which you can-get-away-with. I remember being in the fourth grade and attending high school basketball games. (Everybody...
Now, I shall speak of time and the marking of time. Once I may have said, “the keeping of time,” as in, “My granddaddy’s watch keeps good time,” but that’s a misleading verb, isn’t it? Time is not kept; it continues to pass...
This was written on June 19, 2015 after the shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Many citizens were calling for the removal of the Confederate Battle Flag from the S.C. Statehouse grounds. • • • • • • • When...
